All men will be Peters in their bragging tongue, and most men will be Peters in their base denial; but few men will be Peters in their quick repentance.

In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time.

It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.

Business is the salt of life, which not only gives a grateful smack to it, but dries up those crudities that would offend, preserves from putrefaction and drives off all those blowing flies that would corrupt it.

The noblest part of a friend is an honest boldness in the notifying of errors. He that tells me of a fault, aiming at my good, I must think him wise and faithful--wise in spying that which I see not; faithful in a plain admonishment, not tainted with flattery.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression.